45 Funny and Easy Tongue Twisters for Your Kids

Tongue twisters are a sequence of words or sounds, usually alliterative, palindromic, or repetitive in nature, that are tough to pronounce quickly and correctly. This makes them a fun and engaging way to help improve your child’s speech and language skills. In fact, actors, singers, news anchors, and politicians, among others, are known to practice tongue twisters before going on stage to speak clearly and fluently. Even speech therapists employ tongue twisters to help people overcome their speech impediments. 

If you’re looking for tongue twister examples, look no further. Here are some popular tongue twisters that can help both children and adults have fun while improving their speaking skills. You can start with some simple tongue twisters and build up to more challenging ones. You can also turn a tongue-twister recital into a family/group activity and make learning fun.

Benefits of tongue twisters for kids

Besides being a fun and enjoyable way to learn and bond, reciting tongue twisters can help your child:

• Develop their language skills 

• Improve their fluency and pronunciation 

• Improve their vocabulary

• Exercise the muscles that are necessary for speech

30 short and easy tongue twisters in English for kids

Before you take on the more fun and challenging tongue twisters with your child, encourage him/her to start off with some short and easy tongue twisters as a warm-up. Here are our 30 best short and easy tongue twisters in English for kids:

1. Eleven benevolent elephants.

2. She sees cheese.

3. Six sticky skeletons.

4. Truly rural.

5. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod

6. Which witch is which?

7. Willy’s real rear wheel.

8. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

9. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.

10. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.

11. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.

12. Really leery, rarely Larry.

13. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

14. A snake sneaks to seek a snack.

15. Six Czech cricket critics.

16. Blue bluebird.

17. Red lorry, yellow lorry.

18. Daddy draws doors.

19. Three free throws.

20. The big bug bit the little beetle.

21. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.

22. Friendly fleas and fireflies.

23. Fresh fried fish.

24. Specific Pacific.

25. Six sticky skeletons.

26. Green glass globes glow greenly.

27. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

28. Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

29. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.

30. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

15 fun and challenging tongue twisters in English for kids

You can share these time-tested tongue twisters with your child or turn their recital into a family/group activity and have fun. Here are our 15 best fun and challenging tongue twisters in English for students and adults alike. These are sure to challenge your vocal abilities and tickle your funny bone:

1.

I thought a thought.

But the thought I thought

Wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.

If the thought I thought I thought,

Had been the thought I thought,

I wouldn’t have thought I thought.

2.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

3.

I scream, you scream,
We all scream for ice cream.

4.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

5.

She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
And if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

6.

How much ground would a groundhog hog, 

If a groundhog could hog ground? 

A groundhog would hog all the ground he could hog, 

If a groundhog could hog ground.

7.

If two witches were watching two watches,

Which witch would watch which watch?

8.

Whether the weather is warm,

Whether the weather is hot,

We have to put up with the weather,

Whether we like it or not.

9.

Birdie birdie in the sky,

Laid a turdie in my eye.

If cows could fly,

I’d have a cow pie in my eye.

10.

Betty Botter bought some butter. “But,” said she, “The butter’s bitter.

If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.”

But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.

So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,

Put it in her bitter batter. Made her bitter batter better.

11.

I slit the sheet, 

The sheet I slit, 

And on the slitted sheet, I sit.

12.

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
Don’t eat with your mouth full!

13.

I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop.

Where she shines, she sits, and where she sits, she shines.

14.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. 

Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. 

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?

15.

Can you can a canned can into an uncanned can 

Like a canner can a canned can into an uncanned can?

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